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Z O R K G R A N D I N Q U I S I T O R D E M O Welcome to the Zork Grand Inquisitor Demo. You are an ageless, faceless, adventure person who has stumbled upon an old lantern. On the run from the Grand Inquisitor and his minions, you head for the forest surrounding Foozle. Maybe you can escape underground... How to Install the Zork Grand Inquisitor Double Click on the Setup file in the ZGI_Demo folder. This will launch the Frobozz Electric Installer which will guide you through the installation process. You need a Pentium 90, 16 Megs of Memory, a 16 Bit Audio Card, and a 16 Bit Video Card. You will need at least 45 megs of uncompressed hard disk space to install the game. Also, you will need DirectX 3.0a or higher running on your system. You can download DirectX at www.microsoft.com. DirectX is also included in many games, so you may already have it on your system. How to Play the Zork Grand Inquisitor Demo Your goal in the demo is to escape underground and access each of the three areas located off the Crossroads. Each of these areas contains a slide show of places to visit in the full version of Zork Grand Inquisitor. Z-Vision & The Zork Grand Inquisitor Interface With Activision's Z-Vision technology, you can see a complete 360-degree view of your surroundings from almost every point in the game. By panning left and right, you can explore the world of Zork Grand Inquisitor in incredible detail. You may find many different things to interact with as you pan through a single 360-degree view. As you look around, pay attention to your cursor-it will provide you with useful information about your environment. There are three kinds of cursors: exploration cursors (which help you navigate through the worlds), inventory cursors (which let you use items you find along the way) and Magic Spell Cursors (for, naturally enough, casting spells). The cursors are your tools for interacting with the world of Zork Grand Inquisitor. It may take you a few minutes to get used to the sensation of panning. Try and go slowly until you get the hang of it. Inventory Note: If you have switched buttons in your Windows Mouse Control Panel, the buttons indicated in the following instructions will be reversed. In Zork Grand Inquisitor, there are many items that you can pick up and carry around with you for use later in the game. When you pick up an item, it is placed in your inventory. A picture of the item takes the place of your normal navigation cursors. Your items are stored in your inventory bag. Right clicking or pressing F5 will take you to the inventory screen. (See the Menu Bar Section for quick access to your stuff.) The screen is divided into two halves. The right half of the screen is your special item area. As you play the game, you will obtain some special objects, like a spell book. The left half is where you store your basic objects. You begin the demo with only a length of rope and a lantern. Clicking on an object will put it into your hand. If you click an object while holding another, the one you clicked on will be in your hand and the one you were holding will be put into the bag. You can drop an object by clicking on an empty area of the bag. (Pressing F8 at any time will also put the current object into the bag). Below is a list of special objects and how they are used in the game: Spell Book - Left Click on the Book to open your spell book Lantern - No adventurer should be without his or her lantern. Grues are known to prey on unsuspecting adventurers who stumble into the dark. Only go underground when you have a trusty light source. Frobozz Magic Viewer - Besides your Rope and Lantern, you are lucky enough to have an antique Frobozz Magic Viewer. Placing an object onto the viewer will bring you a close up view of the object. Click on the "Close Here" label to leave the inventory screen. Spell Casting and the Spell Book Magic is under attack in Zork Grand Inquisitor. You are the last person practicing magic in the empire. Once you acquire a spell book, you can cast spells. To open the spell book, select it from your inventory screen. You can also press F6 for direct access. Your spell book opens to one of two pages - High Spells and Middle/Deep Spells. Each page contains different types of spells. Use the tabs on the side of the screen to change pages. Each spell is identified by a rune, followed by the name of the spell and a description of what it does. To Cast a spell, you need to memorize it. You do this by clicking on a spell (see below for a way to select spells without opening the book). The spell will be chanted, the book will close and your cursor will become the same as the spell's rune. Clicking with the spell will cause you to cast the spell on the object clicked upon. You only remember a spell for a short time. If you wait too long or change views, you will need to re-memorize the spell. You can purposely forget a spell by pressing F8. You can cast spells at any time in the game, although they may not work for a variety of reasons. For example, casting Igram (turn purple items invisible) will fail on a red chair. Gaining new spells is part of the fun of Zork Grand Inquisitor. To add spells to your spell book, you need to find spell scrolls. These are scattered around the underground. When you find a spell, it needs to be written into the book so it can be used more than once (a spell scroll disappears when it is used). In the old days, a special spell was required to accomplish this task. With your auto-Gnusto spell book, spells will automatically write themselves into your book; the original scroll will vanish after the spell is written into the book. Menu Bars At the top of the screen, you can access three different menu bars. The center bar allows you to access the game screens of ZGI. The left bar is a Inventory menu and the right bar is a Spell Menu. Center Bar If you place your cursor at the top of the screen, a bar will appear allowing you to save or restore a game, or quit the game. Save Game Save - To save a game, click on Save. Use your cursor to select a slot, type in a game name, and press Enter. You can use a previously used slot; the program will ask you to confirm the overwriting of the old file. Restore Game Restore - To restore a saved game, click on Restore. Then, highlight the game you wish to restore, and press Enter or click your left mouse button. Inventory Bar Move the cursor to the top left corner of the screen. A bar zips out showing your current objects. You can pick up or drop objects on the bar. This is identical to the left half of your inventory. This bar is not accessible from the inventory screen. Spell Bar On the right side of the menu bar area is the spell bar. The spell bar is similar to the Inventory bar. You can quickly learn a spell by clicking on the spell's rune. This is equivalent to clicking on a spell in the Spell Book. The bar is not accessible from the Spell Book. Keyboard Controls Ctrl-S Save Ctrl-R Restore Ctrl-Q Quit Spacebar Skip current movie. Also closes the inventory and spell book screens. F5 Inventory F6 Spell Book F8 Put Away Current Object / Forget Spell Trouble Shooting If you have trouble running the ZGI Demo, any of the following may alleviate the problem: Restart your computer. Reinstall DirectX - make sure your system is certified. Set your monitor to 16 bit, 640 x 480 before running the game. We recommend that you do not run other applications while running the ZGI Demo. Also, if you Alt-Tab out of ZGI, return to the game via the Alt-Tab interface - clicking on the Menu Bar will create a screen artifact in the game. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zork Grand Inquisitor Demo is (c) 1997 Activision, Inc.